USPTO Examiner BERTRAM RYAN - Art Unit 2137

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18865206METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING DISK SEQUENCES OF HARD DISK BACKPLANES, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICENovember 2024April 2025Allow510NoNo
18853016POLARITY INVERSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUSSeptember 2024February 2025Allow400NoNo
18598100NAMESPACE SIZE ADJUSTMENT IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICESMarch 2024January 2025Allow1100NoNo
18594070MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MEMORY CHIPSMarch 2024June 2025Allow1610YesNo
18684941DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SPACE MANAGEMENT METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1400NoNo
18431101CLOSING BLOCK FAMILY BASED ON SOFT AND HARD CLOSURE CRITERIAFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1500NoNo
18427876RANGE DEVIATION BASED NAMESPACE REBALANCING IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE NETWORKJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1200NoNo
18415459PERFORMANCE CONTROL FOR A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEMJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1310NoNo
18415052GRAPHICS PROCESSOR DATA ACCESS AND SHARINGJanuary 2024September 2024Allow800NoNo
18527353STORAGE SYSTEM, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND MANAGEMENT NODEDecember 2023November 2024Allow1210NoNo
18516632MEMORY SYSTEMNovember 2023January 2025Allow1410NoNo
18386855MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY DEVICE FOR CHECKING COMMAND AND ADDRESS (CA) SIGNAL WITH PREDETERMINED PATTERN OF COMMANDNovember 2023March 2025Allow1610YesNo
18498256METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXPANDING STORAGE DEVICE CLUSTEROctober 2023June 2025Allow2010YesNo
18497925Co-located Journaling and Data Storage for Write RequestsOctober 2023September 2024Allow1100NoNo
18495929ADAPTIVELY SELECTING COMPRESSION PROCESS BASED ON END-TO-END PERFORMANCEOctober 2023June 2025Allow2010YesNo
18481246STORAGE DEVICE WITH IMPROVED READ PERFORMANCE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOFOctober 2023May 2025Allow2011YesNo
18376528VIRTUAL FEDERATION APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT CPU UTILIZATION IN STORAGE SYSTEMS WITH HIGH NUMBER OF CORESOctober 2023October 2024Allow1200NoNo
18369046APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR LOGICAL ADDRESS RANGES OF HOST COMMANDSSeptember 2023September 2024Allow1200NoNo
18461130ON-DEMAND SWAP SPACE FOR VARIOUS PLATFORM COMPONENTSSeptember 2023December 2024Allow1600NoNo
18459389MANAGING OPERATIONS IN MEMORY SYSTEMSAugust 2023November 2024Allow1400NoNo
18449428SEGREGATING LARGE DATA BLOCKS FOR DATA STORAGE SYSTEMAugust 2023January 2025Allow1810NoNo
18447738DYNAMIC MODE SELECTION FOR HYBRID SINGLE-LEVEL CELL AND MULTI-LEVEL CELL DATA STORAGE DEVICESAugust 2023April 2025Allow2020YesNo
18447813ADDRESS TRANSLATION SERVICE FOR HOST QUEUESAugust 2023February 2025Allow1801NoNo
18447159Dynamic DDR Scaling And Use Case Management Based On DDR Refresh Rate And SizeAugust 2023January 2025Allow1810NoNo
18447046METHOD FOR HOST ACCESS TO NETWORK DEVICE-MANAGED MEMORY POOLAugust 2023March 2025Allow2020NoNo
18359683ATS PRI SUPPORT WITH IMPLICIT CACHEJuly 2023December 2024Allow1710YesNo
18359704FIRMWARE SCHEME FOR 3 TIER MEMORIESJuly 2023June 2025Allow2320YesNo
18226720MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY SYSTEM PERFORMING DATA SEARCH BASED ON LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL MAPPING TABLEJuly 2023June 2025Allow2230YesNo
18225836DATA STORAGE SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF POLLING INTERVALSJuly 2023August 2024Allow1300NoNo
18259923METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORAGE MANAGEMENT, STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICEJune 2023December 2023Allow500NoNo
18343971CACHE PREFETCHINGJune 2023December 2024Allow1810NoNo
18341273LIVE DATA MIGRATION IN DOCUMENT STORESJune 2023April 2024Allow1010NoNo
18210641SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SSDS WITH LOWEST TAIL LATENCIESJune 2023December 2024Allow1810YesNo
18200215STORAGE SERVER AND OPERATION METHOD OF STORAGE SERVERMay 2023November 2024Allow1710YesNo
18314978STORAGE DEVICES INCLUDING NONVOLATILE MEMORY AND RELATED METHODS OF OPERATING SUCH STORAGE DEVICESMay 2023December 2024Allow1911YesNo
18302604Data Block Allocation for Storage SystemApril 2023June 2025Allow2630YesNo
18130650OPERATION METHOD OF HOST CONFIGURED TO COMMUNICATE WITH STORAGE DEVICES AND MEMORY DEVICES, AND SYSTEM INCLUDING STORAGE DEVICES AND MEMORY DEVICESApril 2023February 2025Allow2330YesNo
18129072CACHE LOOK UP DURING PACKET PROCESSING BY UNIFORMLY CACHING NON-UNIFORM LENGTHS OF PAYLOAD DATA IN A DUAL-STAGE CACHE OF PACKET PROCESSORSMarch 2023May 2024Allow1400NoNo
18191423ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEMORY OF ELECTRONIC DEVICEMarch 2023September 2024Allow1810YesNo
18125890Object Storage And Access Management Systems And MethodsMarch 2023May 2024Allow1400NoNo
18040145FACILITATING IMPROVED USE OF STOCHASTIC ASSOCIATIVE MEMORYJanuary 2023April 2024Allow1500NoNo
18103348INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD IN HYBRID CLOUD SYSTEM INCLUDING HOSTS PROVIDED IN CLOUD AND STORAGE APPARATUS PROVIDED AT A LOCATION OTHER THAN THE CLOUDJanuary 2023April 2024Allow1510NoNo
18018801A HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMJanuary 2023April 2025Allow2630NoNo
18159257MEMORY USAGE MONITORING AND IMPROVEMENT IN A GARBAGE-COLLECTED PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTJanuary 2023July 2024Allow1810NoNo
18159656EFFICIENT UNMAP HANDLING USING SYNCHRONIZED REDUNDANT COMPONENTS OF DATA OBJECTSJanuary 2023June 2024Allow1700NoNo
18101281TECHNIQUES FOR SERVICING I/O OPERATIONS USING REDIRECTIONJanuary 2023May 2024Allow1600NoNo
18158874METHOD, DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLER, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SEQUENTIAL STORAGE DEVICES IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENTJanuary 2023December 2024Allow2220YesNo
18093267DYNAMICALLY ASSIGNING STORAGE OBJECTS TO COMPARTMENT CONSTRUCTS OF A STORAGE SYSTEM TO REDUCE APPLICATION RISKJanuary 2023May 2024Allow1600NoNo
18090792CLUSTER MANAGEMENT IN LARGE-SCALE STORAGE SYSTEMSDecember 2022July 2024Allow1810NoNo
18086770STORAGE SYSTEM PERFORMING OVERWRITE, HOST SYSTEM CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM, AND OPERATING METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEMDecember 2022April 2024Allow1620YesNo
18085248Methods of Administering Metadata for Persistent Storage DeviceDecember 2022July 2024Allow1910NoNo
18068995PIM COMPUTING SYSTEM AND MEMORY CONTROLLER THEREOFDecember 2022February 2024Allow1400NoNo
18083481Handling Memory RequestsDecember 2022November 2023Allow1120NoNo
18078400AUTONOMOUS STORAGE PROVISIONINGDecember 2022October 2023Allow1110NoNo
18070610MEMORY SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING PARAMETER VALUES ACCORDING TO WORKLOAD CLASS AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMENovember 2022July 2024Allow1910NoNo
18070328BANDWIDTH BOOSTED STACKED MEMORYNovember 2022November 2024Allow2320YesNo
17994077SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MEMORY INTERFACE INCLUDING RECONFIGURABLE CHANNELNovember 2022February 2024Allow1510NoNo
17927465Method and System for Balancing and Optimizing Primary Placement Group, and Device and MediumNovember 2022June 2024Allow1910NoNo
17984118PERFORMANCE CONTROL FOR A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEMNovember 2022October 2023Allow1110NoNo
17982951STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY CONTROLLER AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SAMENovember 2022March 2025Allow2841YesNo
17969874MICROSERVICE STORAGE DEVICE SYSTEMOctober 2022June 2024Allow2010NoNo
17967214Lazy compaction in garbage collectionOctober 2022February 2024Allow1600NoNo
17965957MEMORY SYSTEM REFRESH MANAGEMENTOctober 2022September 2024Allow2320YesNo
18046625COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH DIRECT INVALIDATION IN A HIERARCHICAL CACHE STRUCTURE BASED ON AT LEAST ONE DESIGNATED KEY IDENTIFICATION CODEOctober 2022June 2024Allow2010NoNo
17965173SETTING CACHE POLICY INFORMATION FOR PREFETCHED CACHE ENTRYOctober 2022May 2024Allow2010NoNo
17964138DATA PLACEMENT SELECTION AMONG STORAGE DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH STORAGE NODES OF A STORAGE SYSTEMOctober 2022June 2024Allow2010YesNo
17959308METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ACCESS MANAGEMENT OF MEMORY DEVICE IN HOST PERFORMANCE BOOSTER ARCHITECTURE WITH AID OF DEVICE SIDE TABLE INFORMATION ENCODING AND DECODINGOctober 2022April 2024Allow1810NoNo
17959320METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ACCESS MANAGEMENT OF MEMORY DEVICE IN HOST PERFORMANCE BOOSTER ARCHITECTURE WITH AID OF DEVICE SIDE TABLE INFORMATION ENCODING AND DECODINGOctober 2022April 2024Allow1810NoNo
17957205Selecting Between Basic and Global Persistent Flush ModesSeptember 2022December 2023Allow1400NoNo
17953068MEMORY DEVICE THAT STORES NUMBER OF ACTIVATION TIMES OF WORD LINESSeptember 2022March 2024Allow1710YesNo
17952933A/D Bit Storage, Processing, and ModesSeptember 2022March 2024Allow1701NoNo
17939333CACHE PROGRAM OPERATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH STATIC RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORYSeptember 2022February 2024Allow1710YesNo
17900830SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE SYSTEMSAugust 2022November 2023Allow1420YesNo
17879880MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONFIGURE LOGICAL BLOCKSAugust 2022February 2024Allow1810NoNo
17880104METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING OPERATION OF GARBAGE COLLECTIONAugust 2022September 2023Allow1400NoNo
17815945INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAMJuly 2022May 2024Abandon2210NoNo
17877554Identified Zones For Optimal Parity Sharing ZonesJuly 2022June 2023Allow1000NoNo
17872206IMPLEMENTING FAULT TOLERANT PAGE STRIPES ON LOW DENSITY MEMORY SYSTEMSJuly 2022September 2023Allow1410NoNo
17870642NAMESPACE SIZE ADJUSTMENT IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICESJuly 2022November 2023Allow1520NoNo
17868260CO-LOCATED JOURNALING AND DATA STORAGE FOR WRITE REQUESTSJuly 2022May 2023Allow1000NoNo
17862025DATA WAREHOUSE BATCH ISOLATION WITH ROLLBACK AND ROLL FORWARD CAPABILITYJuly 2022May 2023Allow1010NoNo
17860098MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORYJuly 2022May 2023Allow1000NoNo
17859816MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS FOR MEMORY DEVICESJuly 2022August 2023Allow1320YesNo
17849290CO-LOCATED JOURNALING AND DATA STORAGE FOR WRITE REQUESTSJune 2022June 2023Allow1210NoNo
17848577STORAGE SYSTEM FOR MIGRATING DATA BETWEEN TIERSJune 2022February 2023Allow810NoNo
17846316Rate Levelling Among Peer Data Storage DevicesJune 2022October 2023Allow1600NoNo
17824562SCAN FRAGMENTATION IN MEMORY DEVICESMay 2022January 2024Allow2010NoNo
17824749LIFESPAN FORECASTING OF MEMORY DEVICES AND PREDICTIVE DEVICE HEALTH MANAGEMENTMay 2022January 2024Allow2010YesNo
17824392CONTROL METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING RATIO OF SINGLE-LEVEL CELL (SLC) BLOCKS AND THREE-LEVEL CELLS (TLC) BLOCKSMay 2022March 2025Abandon3440YesNo
17733559MEMORY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY DEVICEApril 2022January 2024Allow2110YesNo
17729346AUTOMATED OVERLAY REGROUPINGApril 2022September 2023Allow1700NoNo
17706582NATIVE KEY-VALUE STORAGE ENABLED DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMMarch 2022June 2025Abandon3960YesNo
17705413METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING COMMUNICATIONS SPECIFICATION VERSION CONTROL OF MEMORY DEVICE IN PREDETERMINED COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE WITH AID OF COMPATIBILITY MANAGEMENT, AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMMarch 2022December 2023Allow2110NoNo
17698004INITIAL CACHE SEGMENTATION RECOMMENDATION ENGINE USING CUSTOMER-SPECIFIC HISTORICAL WORKLOAD ANALYSISMarch 2022June 2023Allow1520NoNo
17679018HOST-RESIDENT TRANSLATION LAYER VALIDITY CHECKFebruary 2022April 2023Allow1310NoNo
17651215IDENTIFICATION AND STORAGE OF BOOT INFORMATION AT A MEMORY SYSTEMFebruary 2022February 2024Allow2420NoNo
17669650METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDOFF WITH PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICESFebruary 2022March 2023Allow1300NoNo
17590528VARIABLE PAGE SIZE ARCHITECTUREFebruary 2022December 2023Allow2230YesNo
17646315Managing Operational State Data in Memory ModuleDecember 2021June 2023Allow1710NoNo
17548909DATA PROTECTION WITH MULTIPLE SITE REPLICATIONDecember 2021May 2023Allow1810NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BERTRAM, RYAN.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
6
Examiner Affirmed
6
(100.0%)
Examiner Reversed
0
(0.0%)
Reversal Percentile
3.7%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 0.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
9
Allowed After Appeal Filing
0
(0.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
9
(100.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
1.9%
Lower than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.

In this dataset, 0.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Examiner BERTRAM, RYAN - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner BERTRAM, RYAN works in Art Unit 2137 and has examined 541 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 92.1%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 20 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner BERTRAM, RYAN's allowance rate of 92.1% places them in the 77% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by BERTRAM, RYAN receive 1.37 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 29% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by BERTRAM, RYAN is 20 months. This places the examiner in the 87% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a -0.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BERTRAM, RYAN. This interview benefit is in the 10% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 38.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 84% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 41.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 56% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 50.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 41% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 40.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 4% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 75.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 60.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 76% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.6% of allowed cases (in the 61% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.4% of allowed cases (in the 48% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • RCEs are effective: This examiner has a high allowance rate after RCE compared to others. If you receive a final rejection and have substantive amendments or arguments, an RCE is likely to be successful.

Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

  • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
  • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
  • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
  • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
  • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
  • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

Important Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

No Guarantees: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the statistics presented above. Patent prosecution statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data and are subject to data quality limitations, processing errors, and changes in USPTO practices over time.

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Use at Your Own Risk: While we strive to provide accurate and useful prosecution statistics, you should independently verify any information that is material to your prosecution strategy and use your professional judgment in all patent prosecution matters.